Reinhold Kontzi

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Reinhold Kontzi (born December 22, 1924 , † December 12, 2001 in Stuttgart ) was a German Romanist , Hispanic , Italianist, Arabist and Malteseist .

life and work

Kontzi received his doctorate in 1956 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen with the work The expression of the passive idea in older Italian (Tübingen 1958, supplements to the magazine for Romance philology 99) and became a professor at the University of Tübingen. The focus of his research was Malta , the Romance-Arabic language contact, as well as the Aljamiado (the Arabic-written Spanish literature of the Moriscos ).

Other works

  • (Ed.) Aljamiadotexte , 2 vol., Wiesbaden 1974
  • (Ed.) On the emergence of Romance languages , Darmstadt 1978 (= ways of research 162)
  • (Ed.) Substrate and Superstrate in the Romance Languages , Darmstadt 1982 (Paths of Research 475)
  • (Ed.) Word and Script. Canon Fortunato Panzavecchia's Bible translation into Maltese, based on the manuscripts of the cathedral archive in Mdina , Tübingen 1999
  • Language contact in the Mediterranean. Collected essays on Maltese , Tübingen 2005 (published posthumously, but selected and introduced by Kontzi himself)

literature

  • Romania Arabica. Festschrift for Reinhold Kontzi on his 70th birthday , ed. by Jens Lüdtke , Tübingen 1996 (with list of publications)
  • Jens Lüdtke, "Reinhold Kontzi (1924-2001)", in: Romanische Forschungen 114, 2002, pp. 490–493
personal data
SURNAME Kontzi, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist, Hispanist, Italianist, Arabist and Malteseist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1924
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2001
Place of death Stuttgart